Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Washington special says: The internal revenue reductions were agreed on Friday by the Democrats ofvthe Ways and Means Committee, and will be reported to the full committee early next week and considered with the tariff bill. They effect a total reduction of about $24,000,090 or $25,00.0,000. The tax on tobacco, cigars and cigarettes is repealed, reducing the revenue about $10,000,000. Licenses abolished will make a further reduction of between $4,000,000 andss,ooo,ooo. There is no reduction on spirits of any kind. The manu facturers of fruit brandies are allowed their product in bonded warehouses and take warehouse receipts for the same time as the whisky distillers now have. Some extreme penalties have been lessened. “ '

Colonel Bliss gave a list of trusts that the New York Senate investigating committee had been unable to investigate. It includes a lead trust, a leadpencil trust, cartridges and shells, watches and watch cases, carpets, nails, undertakers’ supplies, coffee, brewers, cordage, planes, silver plate, plated ware; steel rails, and the hog slaughtering trust.

A petition’has been prepared, signed by all the mail clerks on the lowa division of the Burlington Riad, asking General Superintendent Nash to have the Government compel the railroads putesmpetent engineers on the mail trains.

It is probable that the Senate will pass a bill to p ace telegraphic lines under control of the interstate commerce law. The public debt was reduced $7,756,306 during February.